The Ambarawa Railway Museum formerly is a station that was established during the reign of the Netherlands. In 1976 the station was no longer operating because the closing of some lanes that have been damaged. Since that time the Ambarawa station disable townhouse into a museum. The museum has the most of collection in Indonesia. However, unfortunately with the completeness of the collection is not comparable with the existing facilities on the current museum.

The plan of the Government and PT KAI Ambarawa RAILWAY museum renders this as the largest Southeast Asia. Although indonesia has a railway museum, but the museum does not yet have an innovative, informative, educational and can entertain its visitors. Moreover, to achieve standard as the largest museum in southeast seasia, ambarawa museum still needs a much bigger development.

Development in revitalizing the Ambarawa railway museum will apply the theme kontekstualisme architecture as a frame of thought. Contextual is the possible expansion of the building and the desire to associate the new building with the surrounding environment. An architect or building planners are encouraged to pay attention to and respect for the surrounding physical environment, emphasis on visual continuity between the new building with the building, landmark and local style whose existence has been recognized before. Broadly speaking, there are some techniques for designing the new building without knocking down the existing building, so we are getting respect (sensitive) towards the meaning of existing buildings.

On revitalizing the Ambarawa railway museum conducted an analysis through the viewpoint of architectural kontekstualsme themes related to facilities and infrastructure that are in accordance with the principles and criteria of the building the railway museum which is open. Through this generalized to arsiektur kontekstualisme themes are aligned between the new building and the existing building by adopting identity patterns in existing buildings.